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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 25/02/2016
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ISBN: 9780099593973
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 192g
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RRP: £9.99
‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’
So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.
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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 25/02/2016
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ISBN: 9780099593973
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 192g
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RRP: £9.99
Reviews
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"I was truly moved by Margaret Forster's ingeniously structured and beautifully written memoir... A really wonderful book"
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